Design System Strategy
&
Scaling Design Practices

with empathy, kindness, & excitement.

The components are the easy part.

I guide teams through
the
hard parts of
Design Systems

Contribution

Adoption Plans

Governance

60-80% Dev Efficiency gains at IBM Cloud

As Design Principal of IBM Cloud, I spearheaded this design system initiative, built the team, and led the project that saw the total rebrand and relaunch of IBM Cloud Platform + 150 cloud apps. We measured a dev time savings at an average of 2000 hours per pattern used, a 60- 80% increase in dev efficiency.

Hear more about this on the
Design Systems Podcast

IBM Cloud Design System Overview

As Director of Design Systems Consulting at InVision, I’ve guided many teams to success:

Let’s get building

I build design cultures at scale.

  • Design Thinking Evangelist

  • Scaling Design Expert

  • Career Coach

“Best story of design at IBM
in 3 years”

-Phil Gilbert, Former GM IBM Design

I led the deployment of Enterprise Design Thinking for a legacy division of over 3000.

  • Cultural transformation to modern, design-centered practices.

  • Conducted 50+ workshops in 16 months.

  • Led IBM POWER Systems design team to launch first SaaS app.

IBM’s Culture Change at Scale

Feature Story: InVision’s THE LOOP Documentary

My team was picked out as the example of IBM’s design culture being successfully rolled out to star in InVision’s THE LOOP documentary. A 20+ minute piece that captures the sweeping cultural changes that took place starting in 2014.

See the full documentary here.

Thought Leadership

Design Systems Podcast

I’m interviewed and discuss how design systems could replace 75% of production design jobs.

🎧 Listen >

Workshop: How to Create Human Centered Design Systems

For InVision & Clarity Conference, I created and facilitated this workshop of 50 designers.

👀 See it! >

InVision Design System
Guide series

Co-author and SME for 4 design system guides published through InVision.

📚 Read the guides here:

Management Misalignment?

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Design System Sorrows?

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Design to Dev Drama?

Management Misalignment? ✴︎ Design System Sorrows? ✴︎ Design to Dev Drama?

Let’s get building

makeitso@nickhahn.com